Catalogue description Records of the Tate Gallery

Details of TG
Reference: TG
Title: Records of the Tate Gallery
Description:

Records of the Tate Gallery, subsequently Tate Britain and Tate Modern comprising:

  • TG 1- Trustees
  • TG 2 - Directors
  • TG 3 - Restaurant
  • TG 4 - Tate Collections
  • TG 5 - Tate Publishing
  • TG 6 - Visitor Services and Publicity
  • TG 7 - Stores
  • TG 8 - Tate Liverpool [Not yet listed]
  • TG 9 - Tate St Ives [Not yet listed]
  • TG 10 - Barbara Hepworth Museum [Not yet listed]
  • TG 11 - Library [Not yet listed]
  • TG 12 - Tate Modern Project
  • TG 13 - Development
  • TG 14 - Buildings
  • TG 15 - Staff
  • TG 16 - Archive [Not yet listed]
  • TG 17 - Finance
  • TG 18 - Conservation
  • TG 19 - Statutory duties
  • TG 20 - Tate Members
  • TG 22 - Education: Papers, Correspondence and Photographs
  • TG 24 - Education, Tate Liverpool
  • TG 25 - Education, Tate St Ives
  • TG 26 - Education, Tate Britain
  • TG 27 - Education, Tate Modern
  • TG 91 - Display of the Permanent Collection
  • TG 92 - Tate Exhibitions (Millbank)
  • TG 106 - Tate Exhibition Posters

Records held at the Tate Gallery are catalogued more fully in its online catalogue.
Date: 1856-2003
Related material:

Websites for various Tate Galleries can be found within the following division: Division within PF
Held by: Tate Gallery Archive, not available at The National Archives
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Tate Gallery, 1897-
Physical description: 28 series
Access conditions: No records held at The National Archives in this departmental code
Administrative / biographical background:

The Tate comprises the national collections of British painting and twentieth-century painting and sculpture. The gallery was founded in 1897, as the National Gallery of British Art. In 1932, it was renamed the Tate Gallery after sugar magnate Sir Henry Tate, who had laid the foundations for the collection. The Tate Gallery was housed in the current building occupied by Tate Britain, which is situated in Millbank, London.

In 2000, the Tate Gallery transformed itself into the current-day Tate, or the Tate Modern, which consists of a federation of museums: Tate Britain, London (which displays the collection of British art from 1500 to the present day); Tate Liverpool (founded 1988); Tate St Ives, Cornwall (founded 1993); and Tate Modern, London (founded 2000); with a complementary website, Tate Online (created 1998). It is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).

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